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Laurea in Filosofia - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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1° Year

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Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
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One course to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
6
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Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
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Teaching code

4S01229

Credits

6

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Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/07 - HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. IIA dal Feb 27, 2017 al Apr 22, 2017.

Learning outcomes

Formative tasks: Beyond offering a recalling of authors and schools within the ancient philosophy, the course aims at teaching to use the proper philosophical terminology. Also it aims at teaching the critical and shared use of an original philosophical text, for acquiring basic philosophical matters and concepts.

Prerequisites: A knowledge of the history of the ancient philosophy (from VI Century B.C. to 529 A.D.) is previously required (if lacking, it must be acquired or improved). On the contrary a knowledge of the ancient Greek and Latin languages is not required (all the ancient original terms will be translated), although it allows to work easier within this scientific field. An attention to lexical research and an interest in a critical reading of philosophical texts are very useful

Program

Course's title and content: “Socrates and the care of the soul in Ian Patočka”

“…because of the moral confusion of his time, Socrates had no answer near at hand: he had only questions, nothing more. And he tried to drive others to ask the same questions. Making them to look inside themselves he made them deeply to change. The question about man’s extreme good made their souls radically to turn: everyone is obliged to come back about himself and to look for his last ultimate goal and his own calling. … Socrates urges them to take care of themselves, of their souls. And also the exterior acting, namely politics, depends on this care of the soul, on this interior practice” (I. Patočka, Socrates, Praha 1947). We aim at exploring the Socratic care of the soul, both in general, both in this important thinker of 20th century.

Books to be studied
a) General Part:
-for students having never studied it: E. BERTI - F. VOLPI, Storia della filosofia: dall'antichità ad oggi, Edizione compatta, 2 voll. indivisibili, Roma-Bari 2007 (vol. I : from the origins to Neoplatonism);
-for students knowing already something about this subject: P. HADOT, Che cos’è la filosofia antica?, tr. it. Torino Einaudi 1998 (ed. or. Paris 1995);
b) Lecture notes (at students' disposal in the photocopies shops “La rapida” and “Ateneo”, also for Patočka, because of the difficulty to find his book);
c) Critical text 1: A. STAVRU, Socrate e la cura dell’anima. Dialogo e apertura al mondo, Milano Christian Marinotti Edizioni 2009;
d) Critical text 2: one at choice between:
L.M. NAPOLITANO VALDITARA,
-Pietra filosofale della salute. Filosofia antica e formazione in medicina, a c. di F. Fermeglia, Verona QuiEdit 2012 (at students’s disposal in the bookshop QuiEdit);
-Il sé, l’altro, l’intero. Rileggendo i Dialoghi di Platone, Milano Udine Mimesis 2010;
-‘Prospettive del gioire e del soffrire nell’etica di Platone, Milano Udine Mimesis 2013;
-Lo sguardo nel buio. Metafore visive e forme grecoantiche della razionalità, Roma-Bari Laterza 1994
-Virtù, piacere e felicità nell’etica dei Greci, Verona aemme edizioni 2014
(the four last books are at students’s disposal in the photocopy shop “Ateneo”).
Lessons will be available by e-learning (www.elearning.univr.it)


Integrations and substitutions: students who cannot attend lessons, those repeating this course will get in touch with the teacher, in order to receive indications on adding texts: these will be agreed for every student, with regard to his previous knowledge, curriculum and interests.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Bruno Centrone Prima lezione di filosofia antica (Edizione 1) Laterza 2015
Alessandro Stavru Socrate e la cura dell'anima. Dialogo e apertura al mondo Marinotti 2009 9788882731014
Ian Patocka Socrate. Lezioni di filosofia antica (Edizione 1) Rusconi Milano 1999
Maria Michela Sassi Socrate. Persona, filosofo, cittadino (Edizione 1) Torino Einaudi 2015
Enrico Berti - Franco Volpi Storia della filosofia: dall'antichità ad oggi (Edizione 1) Laterza 2007

Examination Methods

Teaching Methods: The course will be carried on by frontal lessons, with an introductory presentation of subjects, with direct reading of the texts on the monographical subject and following discussions. Therefore attendance at classes will be very useful and desirable, though obviously not compulsory.

Assesments: Some oral questions will be put to the student; he will be invited to read and comment some passages of the original texts already read together during classes.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE